Saturday 16 May 1778

Plays

Event Type
Benefit
Revenue
£241 18s
Available Revenue
49%
Capacity
86%

Commanded by
N/A
Requested by
N/A
Charge
£105
Additional Charge
Unknown

Notes
Benefit: Chambers, Fawcett, Mrs Colles

Business

Income

Category Amount Full price Half price Aftermoney Supplementary Notes
Door Receipts £43 16s £31 13s £11 12s 6d 10s 6d £0
Beneficiaries
Tickets Amount Box Pit Gallery Total
Mr Chambers £66 2s N/A N/A N/A N/A
John Fawcett £66 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Hester Boyde £66 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Other Income
Category Amount Notes
Stoppages £6 10s Stopages
Sub Total £6 10s
Total £248 8s

Expenditure

Category Amount Payment Type A/c book entry Notes
Employees (Other) £538 14s Internal Six Days Salary at 89. 15. 8
Employees (Other) £13 16s 6d Internal Certs.
Lamplighters £4 10s Internal Lampmen
Singers £9 10s Internal Chorus 2 Weeks
Music Copyists £1 4s Internal Music Bill by Gaudry
Musicians (Kettle Drums) £2 10s Internal Neilson K: Drum 2 Weeks
Mantuamaking 8s Departmental Mants. Do [Bill]
Tailoring £4 4s 9d Departmental Taylors Do. [Bill]
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £13 16s Internal Const. Candn. & 136 Ext John Powel explains this recurrent DL payment in Tit for Tat (Houghton THE GEN TS 1574.316), p. 34, referring specifically to the 1747-49 seasons: "Four constant Supernumerary Scene-men to assist the Scene-men belonging to the House, and a Candle-Man, that see's all the Candles put out after the Play is over, at One Shilling each ... There are sometimes extraordinary Supernumerary Scene-men made use of in Plays to help at the Traps &c. such as Richard 3rd. Mackbeth, the Tempest &c. which have a Shilling each". Because the candleman was only a small part of the bundle, and was apparently considered to be close enough to the scenemen to be grouped with them, these payments have been categorised as "Carpentry and Sceneshifting".
Carpentry and Sceneshifting £2 4s 5d Departmental Carps. Bill
Bill Distribution £2 14s Internal Billstickers
Poor Rate £1 4s 4d External Poor Rate St. P. Covt. Garden 1/4 to Lady Day
Poor Rate 8s 9d External By Error in their last Receipr for Poor Rate
Renters' Shares £8 External Renters
Total £603 4s 9d